As used in this chapter:
(a) ALARM BUSINESS. The business by any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity of: selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed any alarm system in or on any building, structure or facility.
(b) ALARM SYSTEM. Any mechanical or electrical device which is designed or used for the detection of an unauthorized entry into a building, structure or facility or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act within a building, structure or facility, or both; or for the detection of fire, which emits a sound or transmits a signal or message when actuated. Alarm systems include, but are not limited to, direct dial telephone devices, audible alarms and proprietor alarms. Devices which are not designed or used to register alarms that are audible, visible or perceptible outside of the protected building, structure or facility are not included within this definition.
(c) FALSE ALARM. An alarm signal necessitating a response by the Police Division or the Fire Division where there is no physical sign that an emergency existed. However, an alarm is not false if the owner thereof, after such alarm has
emitted a signal, notifies the Police Division or the Fire Division, as the case may be, that the signal was accidental, and if such notification occurs prior to the dispatching of police or fire officers to the location of the alarm.
(Ord. O84-33, passed 4-3-1984)